An army of electrically grounded, white-gloved, tuxedoed servants passing usb-sticks or portable hard drives containg "packets" delivers the internets to your door!
No, the fear wasn't laid to rest until Teller and other scientists did the math. They didn't do the experiments until after they made the calculations.
Um.. that is impossible to do in a CCD. The sensor is read by advancing the charges across the sensor surface itself. Reading the sensor is a destructive process. I do not know enough about CMOS imagers comment on whether those could accomplish your goal.
The interesting thing about the salaries though, is that they're paid during the period in which the software isn't being sold. Where is that money coming from? Obviously, it's borrowed against the future potential return to be gained from sale of the completed product.
So, salary is a tradeoff between taking the risk that the software won't sell and living comfotably but not extravagantly right now.
Obviously, there is some level of salary that makes up for having no royalties at all.
Generally they mean megawatt-hours per day. I suppose it makes them sound more intelligent. Also, it lets you say you have 80 of 'em per day instead of just calling it a 3 MW facility...
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Because you don't pay a professor doing research anything at all. Professors recieving grants are expected to extract their salaries from the grant money, in addition to *paying for their offices* at exhorbitant, only a university-could-charge-it rent. Which is one of the reasons you see "teaching schools" and "research schools."
Professors recieving grant money can't really afford to waste their time.. teaching classes. They have to work on the research to keep the grant money coming in. Similarly, Grant-giving organizations would be silly to proffer grants on professors who insist on stooping to the level of teaching when they can get "research professors" with much more time on their hands.
All of those are moral arguments, in which the STATE really doesn't have much interest (except the increased crime, but knowing the risk it should be possible to mitigate that one.) Based on those, the decision to allow/ban gambling is simply a matter of how much liberty the underlying society wishes to possess.
The compelling state reason to ban gambling is that it is a transfer of money without any generation of wealth whatsoever. It's just a lame exercise in fiscal masturbation that inflates GDP numbers and moves money around a bit. It's only beneficial effect is to increase the liquidity of money, an effect that is much better controlled by adjusting interest rates. And given the screaming about savings rates, its effects on liquidity leave something to be desired.
It is my understanding that the effect is somewhat like TTL in TCP packets. Obviously turning it off would have detrimental effects, but I've oft wondered what would happen if you could just reset the clock every so often.
I don't find it jarring, just.. disappointing. It spoils a little bit of the roleplay. It's about as discomfiting as say... a cowboy walking through tomorrow land to get to his post. You appreciate that it must be done, but it's still there. Of course, the next generation, it's gone. A new way of looking at things resulted in a much smoother operation.
If it can work for theme parks, it can work for virtual theme parks, which is basically what mmorpgs are, right down to their relative "sizes." It's no vice to hope for improvements in the future.
When you train a dog to do a trick, you start out giving it a treat almost every time it does what you want. Gradually, you reduce the treats while he gradually learns to do your bidding until eventually, he requires no treats at all. What a cruel, cruel trick.
Similarly, a marriage starts out with a honeymoon...
I think if you take a computer apart into ICs, take the ICs apart into transistors, take those apart into molecules, and those to atoms, you'll never find anything you could call a "program" that couldn't also be called, "physics."
Well I'm frustrated because they seemed to have a good definition a few days ago, and the actually official one is apparantly a complificated version of it. What'd be so bad about pluto and ceres being planets?
Perhaps, but the "budget deficit" is meerly the measure of government spending whose cost has not yet been taxed. It is an essencially irrelevant number as far as economic indicators go because it doesn't say anything at all about how much effort is siphoned off for government use rather than remaining in the economy. By definition, all government spending is an economic damper, so the most important number is total budget*. It doesn't matter whether the budget is paid for in taxes, recorded debt, or inflation due to unchecked printing of money. The result is the same.
*the next most important number is quality of damper. For instance, government building a light rail system has some economic benefit, so although the money is not being spent efficiently, it's not being spent 0% efficiently either. On the other hand, if the government spent the money building a big hole and piling the spoil up next to it, there would be no economic benefit to anyone whatsoever. All those workers' efforts are completely wasted: 0% efficiency.
In total numbers, I'm pretty sure the Bush administration has presided over the worst of it. In relative numbers I'm not sure, but surprisingly, the war isn't main problem by any reckoning.
Why not indeed? If you are what you eat, doesn't it make sense to eat what you are? I mean, what's really so bad about eating human meat if it doesn't require slaughtering actual humans? Heck at some point, if the technology can be miniaturized, everyone will have a side of themselves growing. You could have youburgers. it'll be all the rage.
The real reason to keep around the pork and beef lines is taste. You'd get sick of having the same thing all the time, even if it was nutritionally perfect.
It will be interesting when the Whole food, birkenstock, homeopathic astrology crowd is arguing FOR animal products instead of generally siding with PETA.
I'm pretty sure most of the non-ipod mp3 players are basically usb-sticks with mp3 players attached that can figure out what things are. In that respect, ipod db is actually inferior to a regular mp3 player since you first have to load the song into itunes, then and only then will it be added to the player.
I too use an ipod for my music playing, but it's because of aesthetics and the fact that I need to nothing more than plug it in and it automatically synchronizes with iTunes. If I was wiser, i'd have found something other than itunes to organize my music collection, thereby not locking myself into "buy an ipod, or buy a generic mp3 player and do a fair bit of somewhat tricky work."
Except it wasn't a joke. It was an analogy. It happens that it used a particularly popular slashdot meme generally regard as jocular, but the post itself wasn't primarily a joke.
And if it was intended as such, it was a very sloppy attempt at humor.
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An army of electrically grounded, white-gloved, tuxedoed servants passing usb-sticks or portable hard drives containg "packets" delivers the internets to your door!
No, the fear wasn't laid to rest until Teller and other scientists did the math. They didn't do the experiments until after they made the calculations.
Um.. that is impossible to do in a CCD. The sensor is read by advancing the charges across the sensor surface itself. Reading the sensor is a destructive process. I do not know enough about CMOS imagers comment on whether those could accomplish your goal.
The interesting thing about the salaries though, is that they're paid during the period in which the software isn't being sold. Where is that money coming from? Obviously, it's borrowed against the future potential return to be gained from sale of the completed product.
So, salary is a tradeoff between taking the risk that the software won't sell and living comfotably but not extravagantly right now.
Obviously, there is some level of salary that makes up for having no royalties at all.
Interesting thing about the "extremely rich people who steal." They often have more debt than anybody...
Which as it turns out aren't as different as they're made out to be.
Very very sad if the most successful fps ever doesn't require you to actually aim a weapon, and has no jetpacks or spinfusors. Shazbot.
Um.. they both have braille. Why bother making an entirely different set of buttons just for drive-through ATMs?
Generally they mean megawatt-hours per day. I suppose it makes them sound more intelligent. Also, it lets you say you have 80 of 'em per day instead of just calling it a 3 MW facility...
Because you don't pay a professor doing research anything at all. Professors recieving grants are expected to extract their salaries from the grant money, in addition to *paying for their offices* at exhorbitant, only a university-could-charge-it rent. Which is one of the reasons you see "teaching schools" and "research schools."
Professors recieving grant money can't really afford to waste their time.. teaching classes. They have to work on the research to keep the grant money coming in. Similarly, Grant-giving organizations would be silly to proffer grants on professors who insist on stooping to the level of teaching when they can get "research professors" with much more time on their hands.
All of those are moral arguments, in which the STATE really doesn't have much interest (except the increased crime, but knowing the risk it should be possible to mitigate that one.) Based on those, the decision to allow/ban gambling is simply a matter of how much liberty the underlying society wishes to possess.
The compelling state reason to ban gambling is that it is a transfer of money without any generation of wealth whatsoever. It's just a lame exercise in fiscal masturbation that inflates GDP numbers and moves money around a bit. It's only beneficial effect is to increase the liquidity of money, an effect that is much better controlled by adjusting interest rates. And given the screaming about savings rates, its effects on liquidity leave something to be desired.
It is my understanding that the effect is somewhat like TTL in TCP packets. Obviously turning it off would have detrimental effects, but I've oft wondered what would happen if you could just reset the clock every so often.
I don't find it jarring, just.. disappointing. It spoils a little bit of the roleplay. It's about as discomfiting as say... a cowboy walking through tomorrow land to get to his post. You appreciate that it must be done, but it's still there. Of course, the next generation, it's gone. A new way of looking at things resulted in a much smoother operation.
If it can work for theme parks, it can work for virtual theme parks, which is basically what mmorpgs are, right down to their relative "sizes." It's no vice to hope for improvements in the future.
When you train a dog to do a trick, you start out giving it a treat almost every time it does what you want. Gradually, you reduce the treats while he gradually learns to do your bidding until eventually, he requires no treats at all. What a cruel, cruel trick.
Similarly, a marriage starts out with a honeymoon...
Indeed. "Too fat to walk" is not a disability that should be treated with a device that further reduces exercise.
Do you even know what "writing off" is? I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think if you take a computer apart into ICs, take the ICs apart into transistors, take those apart into molecules, and those to atoms, you'll never find anything you could call a "program" that couldn't also be called, "physics."
Well I'm frustrated because they seemed to have a good definition a few days ago, and the actually official one is apparantly a complificated version of it. What'd be so bad about pluto and ceres being planets?
Perhaps, but the "budget deficit" is meerly the measure of government spending whose cost has not yet been taxed. It is an essencially irrelevant number as far as economic indicators go because it doesn't say anything at all about how much effort is siphoned off for government use rather than remaining in the economy. By definition, all government spending is an economic damper, so the most important number is total budget*. It doesn't matter whether the budget is paid for in taxes, recorded debt, or inflation due to unchecked printing of money. The result is the same.
*the next most important number is quality of damper. For instance, government building a light rail system has some economic benefit, so although the money is not being spent efficiently, it's not being spent 0% efficiently either. On the other hand, if the government spent the money building a big hole and piling the spoil up next to it, there would be no economic benefit to anyone whatsoever. All those workers' efforts are completely wasted: 0% efficiency.
In total numbers, I'm pretty sure the Bush administration has presided over the worst of it. In relative numbers I'm not sure, but surprisingly, the war isn't main problem by any reckoning.
Why not indeed? If you are what you eat, doesn't it make sense to eat what you are? I mean, what's really so bad about eating human meat if it doesn't require slaughtering actual humans? Heck at some point, if the technology can be miniaturized, everyone will have a side of themselves growing. You could have youburgers. it'll be all the rage.
The real reason to keep around the pork and beef lines is taste. You'd get sick of having the same thing all the time, even if it was nutritionally perfect.
It will be interesting when the Whole food, birkenstock, homeopathic astrology crowd is arguing FOR animal products instead of generally siding with PETA.
No weird al fans here apparantly.
I'm pretty sure most of the non-ipod mp3 players are basically usb-sticks with mp3 players attached that can figure out what things are. In that respect, ipod db is actually inferior to a regular mp3 player since you first have to load the song into itunes, then and only then will it be added to the player.
I too use an ipod for my music playing, but it's because of aesthetics and the fact that I need to nothing more than plug it in and it automatically synchronizes with iTunes. If I was wiser, i'd have found something other than itunes to organize my music collection, thereby not locking myself into "buy an ipod, or buy a generic mp3 player and do a fair bit of somewhat tricky work."
I'm confused. Did he invent APRS? Or did he invent "turning on a gps reciever and putting it in automatic waypoint mode?"
Except it wasn't a joke. It was an analogy. It happens that it used a particularly popular slashdot meme generally regard as jocular, but the post itself wasn't primarily a joke.
And if it was intended as such, it was a very sloppy attempt at humor.